Adobe And Teardrops Podcast

This week, Rachel is joined by long-list twin Gabe DiChiara and her love Rosa Schneider! The trio talk yearning, unrequited love, and Elizabeth Warren (cw for Bernie or Bust bros: maybe skip the intro and go straight to the music.) This playlist was prompted by the Sappho poem "Deathless Aphrodite." Rosa reads Anne Carson's translation in her sexier-than-Rachel-Maddow voice. Watch (and donate!) to the Holiday Hangout streams here!

1. The Dennis Brothers -- "Everywhere I Go" (Everywhere I Go)
2. Brad Brooks -- "Strange Fruit Numb" (God Save the City)
3. Tret Fure -- "Freedom" (Rembrandt Afternoon)
4. Pillow Queen -- "HowDoILook" (In Waiting)
5. Lucy Dacus -- "Addictions" (Historian)
6. Ghost Shirt -- "Jackhammer" (Domestique)
7. Karen and the Sorrows -- "Why Won't You Come Back To Me?" (Guaranteed Broken Heart)
8. Lee Bains III -- "Stars" (Sweet Disorder!)
9. Kelly Kneiser -- "Happiness Looks Good On You" (Kelly Kneiser)
10. Austin Lucas -- "Shallow Inland Sea" (Immortal Americans)
11. Lydia Loveless -- "Really Wanna See You"
12. Robin -- "Dancing On My Own" (Body Talk Pt. 1)

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This week we get into punk, country, jazz, women's music...all of it, really. Apologies for the pop filter bumping against the mic -- I didn't realize that was happening!

Album of the Week: Roof Beams -- This Life Must Be Long

I've enjoyed the Maryland-based Roof Beams' brand of authentic folk rock for some time now. Speaking of time, the band had plenty of time on their hands this spring and summer and recorded their parts for This Life Must Be Long from home. This works well, with the band sticking to a guitar-forward sound that I feel is becoming less popular. But at the end of the day, you need powerful voices and beautiful songwriting at the forefront. Don't worry -- Roof Beams has that on here, with songs that are heartbreaking, vulnerable, and joyous. This is an album that will make you feel all the feels you may have been numbing yourself from in 2020, and it's fitting that we get it at the end of a difficult ride.

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1. Roof Beams -- "Carry On" (This Life Must Be Long)
2. Micah Bendigo -- "She Strewed the Flowers Across the Floor" (Single)
3. The 1984 Draft -- "Shame About Grace" (Destination Breakdown)
4. J. Maceo -- "Still" (Single)
5. Tommy Atkins -- "Cinderella's Had a Drink" (Kiss Me, Cowboy)
6. Tret Fure -- "Freedom" (Rembrandt Afternoons)
7. Pillow Queens -- "HowDoILook" (In Waiting)
8. Koyt far dayn fardakht -- "Mya Left Work (Comrades in Struggle)" (Single)
9. Kurt Leege -- "At Last" (Sleepytime Jazz)
10. Oskar Schonning & The Calle Stenmen Quintet -- "Big Boys" (America, Oh America)
11. Odetta Holmes -- "Take Me to the Pilot" (Odetta Sings)
12. Tanya Ransom -- "Cyclone" (Single)
13. Posable Action Figures ft. Honeyblood -- "Danger Kill" (Single)

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Rachel still has Thanksgiving brain, but put together all the best in Americana, country, folk, and...classical music?

Album of the Week: Adeem the Artist -- Forgotten Songs and American Dreams Adeem is a fellow contributor at Country Queer, but even if I didn't know him to be a gentleperson and a scholar, I'd fall in love with his music. Funny, touching, urbane, and profound, when Adeem describes himself as "toiling" in his songwriting, you can believe it. Every word is perfectly place, and every line shows us the three-dimensional workings of a human soul. Adeem deftly switches up styles throughout this song in particular, doing whatever it takes to follow the song where it leads him. This week's episode is sponsored by WYLD.gallery. Check out the Austin, TX-based gallery of contemporary American Indian art -- a fantastic holiday gift for literally any budget!

1. Drift Mouth -- "The Book of Allison" (Loveridge is Burning)
2. Rowan Simmons -- "Three-Legged Horse" (Kentucky Coal)
3. The January Lanterns -- "I Won't Know (Until the End)" (Wild Innocence)
4. Scott Cook -- "Leave a Light On" (Tangle of Souls)
5. Odetta Holmes -- "Take Me to the Pilot" (Odetta Sings)
6. Adeem the Artist -- "Canvas to the Frame" (Forgotten Songs and American Dreams)
7. Kingdom Jasmine -- "Bloodsport" (Single)
8. Elli Perry -- "Glynn County" (Single)
9. George Shingleton -- "Misery & Gin" (Out All Nighter)
10. Jan Van Gold -- "New Walking Shoes" (Single)
11. Hillfolk -- "Struggle" (Single)
12. Terry Blade -- "Same Gender Loving" (Single)
13. Anthony Barfield -- Invictus

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We cut right to the chase this week with some of the finest Americana out there, plus an interview with Elli Perry about her incredible new song "Glynn County." The song is only available on her site, and the proceeds go to YOUth Speak, a Glynn County-based youth group that is already making positive change in the wake of Ahmaud Arbury's murder.

This episode of Adobe & Teardrops was sponsored by WYLD gallery in Austin, Texas! Go to wyld.gallery and check out the amazing contemporary Native American art on offer -- for literally any budget! Album of the Week: Becky Warren -- The Sick Season Becky Warren's made something of a career of singing about society's discards -- homeless communities, veterans, and, now, herself. The Sick Season is the kind of sickly deep dive most of us have been on now that we're stuck in isolation -- much like a musician traversing miles and miles of road. Warren's exhaustion with herself will feel familiar to most of us, and she brings some truly stellar backup along with the likes of Emily Saliers and Ben de la Cour. This is the kind of album Adobe & Teardrops lives for and you'll hear it again on my year-end roundup very, very soon.

1. Holly Near -- "Ain't No Where You Can Run" (And Still We Sing: The Outspoken Collection)
2. Chicks With Dip -- "Snake Oil Salesman" (Stomping on Eggshells)
3. Steven Blane -- "Busking My Way Back To You" (Motel Blue)
4. Megan and Shane -- "Caroline" (Caroline)
5. The Pollies -- "Lost" (Not Here)
6. Juhan Ongbrian -- "Sail On" (Single)
7. Risa Kopp -- "Grit and Ashes" (Single)
8. Wild Earp -- "Oligarchy Blues" (Single)
9. Becky Warren -- "Dickerson Pike" (The Sick Season)
10. Johno Leeroy -- "Rest Easy" (The Magnolia Sessions)
11. Martin and the Fall -- "By the Mile" (Nothing Wrong With This EP)
12. Ryan Dunlap -- "You Just Got Beat" (Single)
13. Made of Stone -- "The End" (Single)

INTERVIEW w/ Elli Perry featuring "Glynn County" Send me music via SubmitHub! Send me money via Ko-fi or Patreon. Find Rachel and her comic via https://linktr.ee/rachel.cholst

Meg Williams is the founder of Harper Valley PR but, more importantly, she's an advocate of the Chicago country scene. Meg backed Rainbow Rodeo, the first (known) queer country zine, so she's joing us as a co-host today! Bella did not back the Rainbow Rodeo Kickstarter but she also had a lot to say during today's episode. (She puked right after the recording, so that may be why.)

1. Jeannie C. Reilly -- "Harper Valley PTA"
2. Local News Legend w/ Mary Wander -- "Relationship Anarchy" (No Boyfriend November)
3. Michelle Billingsley -- "Portia" (Not the Marrying Kind)
4. KIT -- "Good Guy" AND "Stranger" (KIT)
5. Nathan Graham -- "Fake Friends" (Saint of Second Chances)
6. Graber Gryass -- "Devil's Got Your Name" (Late Bloom)
7. Meg and the Wheelers -- "Getting Over Him" (Bar in the Divorce)
8. Chantal Van T -- "Nicalochan" (Nicalochan)
9. Dan Whitaker -- "A Man and His Age" (Moving on With You)
10. Beverly Glenn-Copeland -- "Ever New" (Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland)
11. Kory Quinn -- "Thief and a Liar" (Home of the Brave)
12. Bad Flamingo -- "Bottom Shelf Gin" (Single)
13. James Hand -- "In the Corner, By the Table, at the Jukebox" (The Truth Will Set You Free)

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Rachel is joined by British Americana artist Mike West to share views on authenticity in country music, Dungeons & Dragons, and all there is to know about the British Americana scene. You can find Mike's website here and follow him on Twitter at @mike333west or Instagram at @mike333west This week's episode is sponsored by WYLD Gallery in Austin, TX. WYLD Gallery features the finest in Native American contemporary art, including originals and prints that work with every budget. Use the slider tool on the "Shop" tab to see everything on offer at www.wyld.gallery

1. Mike West -- "Rock Ferry" (Single)
2. The Belle Curves -- "Greener Pastures" (2020)
3. Josh Beddis -- "The Old House" (One For Sorrow)
4. Lizzy Lehman -- "Summer Song" (A Place I Know You'll Love)
5. Emma Jade -- "One Horse Town" (Older Now)
6. Oklahoma Uprising -- "High Sign" (High Sign)
7. Alex Tempest -- "Can't Change Me" (Single)
8. wino-strut & Friends -- "Natural Home" (Bloodsicle)
9. Sarah Vista -- "I Wish You Hell" (Killing Fever)
10. Michael B Whit -- "Not in Kansas" (Single)
11. Kings and Queens -- "The King of Salem" (The King of Salem)
12. Sonny Falls -- "Filling in the Blanks" (All That Has Come Apart/Once Did Not Exist)
13. Lonnie Holley -- "Like Hell Broke Away" (National Freedom)

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Just in time for Election Day and right after the US, Austin Lucas and I talk vampires, politics, and overcoming entitlement -- all stemming from his beautiful new album Alive in the Hot Zone! Send me music via SubmitHub! Send me money via Ko-fi or Patreon. Find Rachel and her comic via https://linktr.ee/rachel.cholst

Adobe & Teardrops is huge in India? Also, in spite of all the tough stuff going on, there's always room for interactions with adorable young people! Plus -- an interview with folk duo Sally and George! Don't forget -- there's more music on the site!

1. Magana -- "Morning Person" (You Are Not a Morning Person)
2. Pale Fire -- "King Salt" (Husbands)
3. Stephanie Lambring -- "Pretty" (Autonomy)
4. Cam -- "Til There's Nothing Left" (The Otherside)
5. Twin Solitaire -- "Not My City" (Fearless and Young)
6. Strays Don't Sleep -- "Couldn't Be Happier" (A Short Film For a Long Story)
7. Austin Lucas -- "Cry Over" (Alive in the Hot Zone!)
8. Phillip-Michael Scales -- "Tell Me How I Sound" (Single)
9. Porkchop and the Fixins -- "The Moon" (Single)
10. Mike Blair and the Stonewalls -- "Sleepin Sundays" (Single)
11. Jesse Jams and the Flams -- "You Don't Know Crazy" (You Don't Know Crazy)
12. Jeremy Parsons -- "Lillian" (Single)
13. Mae Krell -- "wash" (Single)
14. Will Overman -- "Little Things" (Single)
15. INTERVIEW: Sally & George"Fish For Free" (Take You On a Ride)"Listen Sister" (Take You On a Ride)

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Of anniversaries, weird cakes, plot twists, and even weirder role-playing games. And baseball? It's all here, even your new favorite Americana artists!

Huge thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ Album of the Week: Stephanie Lambring -- Autonomy Autonomy, Stephanie Lambring's debut solo record, is easily one of the best this year. Lambring had a publishing deal in Nashville, so you know she has strengthened that songwriting muscle. But after a few years of writing catchy songs for other people, she decided to do her own thing. I'm glad she did. Autonomy has some of the year's best songwriting, but Lambring's performances really give them life. This album is an astonishing venting of feminine rage -- not because Lambring is an angry woman, but because this album is all about examining the at times deadly pressures cis women face. Autonomy is an album about the expectations of patriarchy and learning how to flaunt them -- and still survive.

1. Rachel Brooke -- "Ghost of You" (The Loneliness in Me)
2. Robert Connely Farr -- "Bad Whiskey" (County Supper)
3. Nikki O'Neill -- "A Man For All Seasons" (World Is Waiting)
4. Matt Burke -- "Missed My Chance" (Single)
5. White Rose Motor Oil -- "Will Not Fade Away" (You Can't Kill Ghosts)
6. Stephanie Lambring -- "Pretty" (Autonomy)
7. Raye Zaragoza -- "Change Your Name" (Woman In Color)
8. Stephie James -- "Where the Sage Grows" (These Days)
9. Monique DeBose -- "Rally Call" (Single)
10. Black TarPoon -- "Sarita" (The Thad EP)
11. Ruby Mack -- "Milktooth" (Devil Told Me)
12. Clayton Ryan -- "Fight the Tide" (Single)
13. Mariel Buckley and Bros. Landreth -- "Goodbye" (Something New, Something Blue)
14. Tre Burt -- "Under the Devil's Knee" (Single)
15. Micah Schnabel -- "Existential Dread Machine" (Single) Send me music via SubmitHub! Send me money via Ko-fi or Patreon. Find Rachel and her comic via https://linktr.ee/rachel.cholst

It's episode 141 and Rachel has the sensitivity of a Victorian lady. Also, great music from fabulous people.

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT COUNTRY SOUL SONGBOOK THIS WEEKEND! Album of the Week: CF Watkins -- Babygirl CF Watkins has found that sweet spot between pop and Americana -- a brass ring that many recent artists have shot at and missed the mark. It helps that Watkins' lyrics are astute and journalistic in their approach to detail. If you put them down on paper, these would be intricate and observant character studies of women and girls on the precipice of society's expectations. Watkins brings a distinctly feminine perspective to her songs: these are stories of women -- specifically -- bound up in the expectations of others. Women who fearfully, casually, or confidently slash those bonds. Babygirl reminds me of Erin Rae's stunning Putting on Airs: the observations of someone who takes pleasure seeing just how far outside the lines she can color while proudly resisting the instructions in the first place.

1. Natalie Schlabs -- "Eye of the Storm" (Don't Look Too Close)
2. CF Watkins -- "Come Around" (Babygirl)
3. WRENN -- "Maggie Gyllenhaal" (Single)
4. Gim Kordon -- "Joskus mä pelkään" (Single)
5. Jerry Castle -- "Worried Man" (Midnight Testaments)
6. William Elliott Whitmore -- "Put it To Use" (I'm With You)
7. Jonas Friddle -- "Under the Weather" (Single)
8. Proud Country -- "Small Town U.S.A" (Single)
9. Hayeden Leenhouts -- "The Band" (216 Miles)
10. Mink's Miracle Medicine -- "Beautiful Losers" (Thumbs Up Angel)
11. Dead Nettles -- "If Drowning…" (Single)
12. Will Hawkins -- "Punching Walls in Flats and Rentals" (Single)
13. John K Samson -- "Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World" (Single)
14. St. Ove -- "See You Later" (Single)
15. The Belle Curves -- "Waltzing Will" (Single)

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